100W + Wires
I've been fairly active lately, from NQ4I for WPX, with the local club W4ULHfor Field Day, and somewhat active on the higher bands lately from home in thelast month but this is my first contest of more than 20 or 30 QSOs with my owncall in a while. I always enjoy this contest and this year was no different. Ireceived some very large numbers so there should be some big scores posted.Didn't quite match my score from last year thanks to 4 less mults. Never hearda peep from VE4. Happy birthday Canada.
73 de Greg N3ZL

Just caught the last 2 hours as out of town guests left, following daughter'shigh school graduation. Condx seemed ok but lots of QRN. Also some very fastQSB as I probably lost 10 stations between giving me their call and theirreport.
Jerry
VE6TL
Rig: FTDX-5000MP
Amp: FL-7000
Ant: TH6DXX

Another fun RAC, but the low bands were sure noisy! Still managed 1206 x 92.
K6AW and N6RO put in about 20 hours each, N6WM four hours on Wed. nite.
We used one station full time on 20m (K6AW), one station on 40/80m (N6WM)Wed.night for a few hours when we had three ops, and one SO2R station (N6RO) whichhandled all the bands at various times. Thanks to the DVRs in the two K3s atthe SO2R station, I could CQ on two bands simultaneously, but logging contactson the proper band/mode was challenging!
Thanks to all the cordial VEs for sharing their holiday with the rest of us.
Four K3s, two AL1200s, two Alpha 76s, stacked yagis on 40-10m, 2L quad on 80, 4Square on 160m. Win-Test logger.

Thabks for all the Q's. Nice rainy day here to play radio without feeling guiltyabout not being outdoors. Highlight was getting a call from Corsica with serialnumber 11...kinda neat. CU in RAC Winter!!

I would have called conditions poor although my score doesn't reflect that sinceit is 17K higher than last year. Much to my great pleasure I had numerous shortruns gusting well over 200/hr and one full hour at 90.
My fellow hams at MCC supplied a significant numer of mults but as is usual forme, the rare places up north in Canada were silent.
This will be an interesting log to analyze with SH5, especially if that programwill count my number of QSYs which were, like, every five minutes. That turnedout to be good policy since both 10M and 15M could, when they decided tofunction, be quite fruitful (if you remembered to go looking).
The results I'm most anxious to see are those of Bill, K4LTA. He has beenscouping the top CW prize in this contest regularly and that burns a littlebecause my club dues pay for that trophy and I'd like to own one myself. Oncewas OK but it has become habitual on Bill's part. I always watch throughoutthe contests to see how he is doing. In this case, I found myself goingneck-and-neck with Bill in total number of Qs until the point where I losttrack of him at about 550 Qs. Please God, let it be mine. I can't look.
Rig: K3 #95 plus panadapter (waiting on the P3)
Antennas: 160M delta loop at 90 ft and 80M dipole at 75 ft plus 40-6Mvertical
N1MM
TNX for the Qs and the mults
73,
Gary, VE1RGB

Well, all I can say is that this 2.8 times last years Canada Day score. It surewould have been nice if conditions had been a little better. The last 10minutes VE1RAC answered my CQ and the band immediately dropped into deep QSBand couldn't copy my number. Hope things are better next year. N6RO, TNX forthe 2 pts on 160, and 2 pts on 80. Bert, K6CSL

First contest after retirement! Quiet bands. 10 was open double hop to eastand west coast at the same time, just no single hop to Ontario or Quebec. Antennas 40 meter 4 square and single 80 meter vertical with K3 and KW.

Happy Canada Day!
Sure wish I had the day off work to join in the festivities, but I had to makedue with a few hours Wednesday evening.
It was nice running into a lot of friends from north and south of the border.
Thanks to all for the QSOs.
73 - Rick WB8JUI

I am fudging this just to get it in. 496 qsos. 66 mults. 225,720 is the score. Igot mixed up a few times with NA4C AND NA4K. I should not second guess myself.Nice to be called by Corsica twice...once in ssb and once in cw. Nice also toget a call from Kenya. Thats a first. Weirdest momemt was working VA7MM...myold BC call sign prior to my posting to the Royal Military College where I wasable to snag VE3RCN as a call. CF3NAVY is a killer in CW...even in voice it wasCF3NA/VY. I found in the pile-ups the VY made it through...so I got thego-ahead. My apologies to some stations near the end of the contest. I wasusing my RIT to tune in some signals and forgot to turn it off on 80m. Ithought some people were off freq...my error. Nice to talk about the specialevent call sign. Too bad that more than enough contacts did not know Canada hada Navy. Anyway, check QRZ.COM and pick the Naval QSL card you want when youQSL...otherwise, you get the next one in the pile. Well, CF3NAVY retires at0400z on 4 July. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs from the shore station andfrom the warship. That makes 2714 qsos in my 27 days on the air. Dont worrytaxpayers...this was all on my time...not while on duty. I may try anotherspecial event in December if the pocket book will allow it to close out theCentennial for the Royal Canadian Navy. 73 all.

SFI = 74 A = 17 K = 4
That was not good at all. By far my worst Canada Day outing since 2005. A veryweak Wednesday evening start extended through Thursday here. Qs were down onall bands, and off by more than 180 total. Got about 8 hours in the chair butmostly in short sessions. Had many, many 10-minute CQs before getting anycallers, and only occasionally put together two back-to-back Qs.
F5IN was loud here on 20M early Saturday morning, even off the side. Not alotof other EU callers, but with A=17 I didn't expect many. Scott VE1OP wasdefinitely the loudest heard from the far East when he called in Saturday.
Entirely missed NU, NT and SK.
80M was a wasteland when I was there Friday night. Just 18 for 3 mults (52 for7 last year, 27 for 7 in 2008, 19 for 4 in 2007, 30 for 5 in 2006).
15M didn't open other than a pipeline to W6 from VE7. Nothing heard fromanywhere else.
Special thanks to the stations calling in with low serial numbers in the finalfew hours. Everyone appreciates the contacts.
Wonder where the RAC stations were on CW? Worked just three: VE1, VO2 and VY2.
2-pointers 204
10-pointers 84
20-pointers 4 (3 on 20M, 1 on 40M)
Not as much fun for me as previous years, but this contest is always worthworking, especially for the friendly hellos.
Year CW Ph Mults Score
2010: 292 0 17 22,576 HP
2009: 475 0 30 72,720 HP
2008: 306 0 29 47,908 HP
2007: 612 0 25 61,750 HP
2006: 445 0 23 45,218
2005: 167 0 16 12,800
2004: 160 0 15 13,800
2003: 126 0 23 19,642

SO1R:
Rig: Yaesu FT-1000D
PA: Al-80B 750 watts
ANT: Cushcraft MA5B 10m up, Inverted L, 9m up
N1MM, RigExpert Plus
Improved my last year result by 99 QSO,s even though the propagation was notbetter. So let's wait if that would be the new RAC Canada Day contest record inthe SOAB CW category.
Thanks to all for QSO's and mults.
CU in the IARU contest next weekend.
73!
Victor

From the west it was a flog most of the time,, not much on 40,, 80, or 160..
at the other end of the scale 10 and 15 got one local on each and then one
in calf on 15 and another with a large sig from calf on 10??? wonder why therewas not any more there.. had a s9 noise in the morning but it slowly worked itway out??? thanks for one and all that made the effort to do the contacts.
look for the winter RAC and the sun to be working better..
73,s
Ken

Started later on Wednesday evening and was surprised to find 20m booming intoVE-land. 40 was also good in Canada. Wish I'd had more time to operate thisyear. The last hour, I was /m as I tested out a different mobile installation. Happy Canada Day to our northern neighbors!
73, Bob, w0bh

This was my second Canada Day Contest. I'm not sure the bands were any betterthan last year, but my score sure was! Adding 6M to the repetoire helped justa little, and adding 5000 feet of ground radials to the backyard helped a lot!
I continue to use the TR4W logging software, which works very well for me. TheElecraft K3 is so much fun to use, and so versatile in a contest, that it's awhole new world!

I wish I could have stayed up for 80 and 160 on Friday evening but didn't makeit until midnight. Next year get a younger op.
Nice to meet so many old friends. Thanks to the US and DX ops who make thiscontest much more interesting. The number of non-Canadians in this contest isgrowing year by year and that is nice to see. This year I expect to see many ofthem at the top of the results.
73,
-Robby
VY2SS

This was a semi-serious effort. I stayed in the chair for 5.5 hours onWednesday night and then operated on and off throughout the day on Thursday. Things got pretty slow at times but checking the bands after a break usuallyallowed me to find 10-15 new stations to work. I don't usually operate phonebut I got out the mic for this one since I figured that CW alone would be tooboring. But with no DVK, it got to be pretty tiring to repeat "Canada Day"while calling CQ.
10 and 15 had good openings at times but there just weren't very many stationsto work.
It's always a pleasure to work my many friends up north in this friendly event. Happy Canada Day!
73, Hal W1NN

Poked along using S&P and my 50 watts to a wire which lays in a tree about 20feet up and is completely engulfed in foliage. Worked most stations with just afew calls on CW - thanks to those with great ears! Had fun - happy C'day! --'73 es gud dxing -- Don N4HH

100W + 88' 10-80m Doublet up 50' + Inv L on 160m
Had some time so played some on first eve and some more on Canada Day...thanksto all the VE stns who participated and filled 40% of my log...116 total VE Q'swith 12 being with RAC stns.
GREAT participation from NL...a nice surprise. Worked 8 VO1/VO2 stns includingVO2RAC 3 times! Never heard rare VE8, VY1 or VY0 as expected...esp with likelypoor high latitude condx. Only heard VE4YU in S&P mode but missed him.
Lots of band changes to continue to find activity...glad 15m had somepropagation. Missed VE mults on 10m (difficult path from here)...no short Eskip heard.
Thanks to all for the fun...
73, Bill W1WBB

Nice to try SOAB again with almost all the antennas working! Good competitionfrom both sides of the border and excellent activity from overseas. Conditionswere very disturbed but openings on 10 and 15 were a good balance against thenoise and absorption on the low bands. Watching for the other big SOABHPscores. I know they are out there! Couldn't quite reach VA3RAC's winning scorefrom last year (VE3CX, op) but maybe conditions were better then. I sat thatone out so I really don't know. Must try not to do that again!
73 Bob

FT1000MP, 100W, inverted vee dipole. Station not fullly put back together afterField Day. Sorry my time was so limited this year. 80M sounded great though.F5IN was quite loud. Thanks for the QSOs. 73, John, K4BAI.

We have not operated the Canada Day contest for many years, it was great to beback.
Being a week day QSO rates were moderate to slow. With a K index of 4 for 4hours and average of 3 for the contest period the 15M and 10M bands were notproductive. Local thunderstorms made the low bands hard to listen too.
Local 2M and 6M activity was also not as productive as years past.
Thank you for the Qs and see ya in the next one.
73, Sierra Victor Team VE6RST VE6LDX VE6SV

Thanks for the QSO's.
Its nice that we are able to attract attention from our friends south of theborder and around the world to operate in this contest. The activity is verymuch appreciated, and is getting better every year.
Nice for Canadians to get on the air and wave the flag and let our nationalpride show. I know - does not happen very often, but it sure feels great. Thanks for getting on and celebrating Canada's birthday with us!
My apologies that VA3RAC was not active in this contest. Its an oversight thatI hope will not be repeated. I spoke with one of the the Ontario directors, andarrangements are now being made to make sure that the various RAC stations willbe active in future events. Here's hoping that friends near and far will geton the air to work us in future contests, and all provinces will activate theirvarious RAC stations to make this contest even better!
73,
Tom - VE3CX

Thanks for all the Q's. It was great to touch base with so many familiar calls.
Weather started off hot, humid and scatter thunderstorms. despit this 40 and 80were reasonable despite the QRN. 160 was impossible with 20-30 over 9 noise.Only worked local VE4YU late in theontest for the mult.
15m opened to the east only. never did hear anything west except for VE5RAC onbackscatter. 10m also only opened to eastern ON and western QC.
6m did not open until 30 seconds after the contested ended then there was awidespread opening east west and south.
RAC stations were in short supply this time around.
Highlight of the contest was being called by TY5ZR. Thanks for a new DXCC!
Now 2 weeks of family bonding time before the CQ WW VHF contest.
73 Ed

Great to see so many U.S. and Canadian stations on during a week-day contest.Missed some band openings - but found lots of casual takers on 80M and 20M. Therecommended frequencies for 40M are very confusing to many hams --- we shouldaim for 7.150 to 7.200 only.
Nice friendly contest with many ops taking the time to QSO contacts all thebest for both Canada Day and the July 4th week-end holiday.
Tnx to all ..... Al, VA3KAI

Single-op + Telnet = Multi-op in this one...
Mark V, Tri-bander and wires, 87A @ 600 w and N1MM...
An hour here and there, and spent a lot of time being moved...Even turned toSSB for a VE3 move and ended up with 9 QSO's out of it from followers...Didn'tappear to be a whole lot of activity when I was on...
Found a few MCC'ers...
C U in the Fall,
Scott VE1OP

Would have been nice to have better solar conditions, but we work with what wehave. Not as strong a result as last year, but better than I expected. Thanksto all those who exchanged QSO's in celebration of Canada Day.